WoRMS taxon details
Emertonia Wilson C.B., 1932
347109 (urn:lsid:marinespecies.org:taxname:347109)
accepted
Genus
Emertonia gracilis Wilson C.B., 1932 (type by original designation)
Kliopsyllus Apostolov & Marinov, 1988 · unaccepted (junior subjective synonym of...)
junior subjective synonym of Emertonia (see Huys, 2009)
Kliopsyllus Kunz, 1962 · unaccepted > nomen nudum
Krishnapsyllus Kunz, 1974 · unaccepted (junior subjective synonym of...)
junior subjective synonym of Emertonia (see Huys, 2009)
- Species Emertonia acutifurcata (Mielke, 1985)
- Species Emertonia andeep (Veit-Köhler, 2004)
- Species Emertonia atlantica (Kunz, 1983)
- Species Emertonia berndi Mathiske & Veit-Köhler in Mathiske, Thistle, Gheerardyn & Veit-Köhler, 2021
- Species Emertonia brevicaudata (Kornev & Chertoprud, 2008)
- Species Emertonia californica (Kunz, 1981)
- Species Emertonia chilensis (Mielke, 1985)
- Species Emertonia clausi Pointner & Veit-Köhler in Pointner, Kihara, Glatzel & Veit-Köhler, 2013
- Species Emertonia coelebs (Monard, 1935)
- Species Emertonia constricta (Nicholls, 1935)
- Species Emertonia debilis (Kunz, 1981)
- Species Emertonia diva (Veit-Köhler, 2005)
- Species Emertonia enalia (Krishnaswamy, 1957)
- Species Emertonia furcavaricata (Kunz, 1974)
- Species Emertonia gracilis Wilson C.B., 1932
- Species Emertonia hessleri Mathiske, Thistle & Veit-Köhler in Mathiske Thistle, Gheerardyn & Veit-Köhler, 2021
- Species Emertonia holsatica (Klie, 1929)
- Species Emertonia idiotes (Wells, 1967)
- Species Emertonia ilse Mathiske & Veit-Köhler in Mathiske, Thistle, Gheerardyn & Veit-Köhler, 2021
- Species Emertonia ingridae Pointner & Veit-Köhler in Pointner, Kihara, Glatzel & Veit-Köhler, 2013
- Species Emertonia insularis (Kunz, 1981)
- Species Emertonia koreana Back & W. Lee, 2017
- Species Emertonia laurentica (Nicholls, 1939)
- Species Emertonia longifurcata (Scheibel, 1975)
- Species Emertonia longisetosa (Krishnaswamy, 1951)
- Species Emertonia major (Nicholls, 1939)
- Species Emertonia masryi (Bodin, 1979)
- Species Emertonia miguelensis (Kunz, 1983)
- Species Emertonia minor (Vasconcelos, Veit-Köhler, Drewes & Parreira dos Santos, 2009)
- Species Emertonia panamensis (Mielke, 1984)
- Species Emertonia paraholsatica (Mielke, 1975)
- Species Emertonia perharidiensis (Wells, 1963)
- Species Emertonia pontica (Şerban, 1959)
- Species Emertonia psammobionta (Noodt, 1964)
- Species Emertonia psammophila (Noodt, 1964)
- Species Emertonia pygmaea (Nicholls, 1939)
- Species Emertonia regulexstans (Mielke, 1984)
- Species Emertonia schminkei (Veit-Köhler & Drewes, 2009)
- Species Emertonia serrata Mathiske & Veit-Köhler in Mathiske, Thistle, Gheerardyn & Veit-Köhler, 2021
- Species Emertonia similis (Mielke, 1984)
- Species Emertonia simplex Back & W. Lee, 2017
- Species Emertonia spiniger (Wells, Kunz & Rao, 1975)
- Species Emertonia unguiseta (Mielke, 1984)
- Species Emertonia acutata (Klie, 1935) accepted as Paramesochra acutata Klie, 1935
- Species Emertonia capensis Krishnaswamy, 1957 accepted as Kliopsyllus capensis (Krishnaswamy, 1957) (unpublished thesis)
- Species Emertonia minor (Scott T. & Scott A., 1895) accepted as Scottopsyllus minor (Scott T. & Scott A., 1895) accepted as Scottopsyllus (Scottopsyllus) minor (Scott, T. & Scott A., 1895) accepted as Wellsopsyllus (Scottopsyllus) minor (Scott, T. & Scott A., 1895) (synonym)
- Species Emertonia minuta Krishnaswamy, 1957 accepted as Kliopsyllus minutus (Krishnaswamy, 1957)
- Species Emertonia pseudogracilis Krishnaswamy, 1957 accepted as Kliopsyllus pseudogracilis (Krishnaswamy, 1957)
marine, brackish, fresh, terrestrial
Wilson, C.B. (1932). The copepods of the Woods Hole region, Massachusetts. <em>Bulletin of the United States National Museum.</em> 158:1-635, figs. 1-316, pls. 1-41. [details] Available for editors 
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Walter, T.C.; Boxshall, G. (2025). World of Copepods Database. Emertonia Wilson C.B., 1932. Accessed through: World Register of Marine Species at: https://www.marinespecies.org/aphia.php?p=taxdetails&id=347109 on 2025-07-08
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Nomenclature
original description
Wilson, C.B. (1932). The copepods of the Woods Hole region, Massachusetts. <em>Bulletin of the United States National Museum.</em> 158:1-635, figs. 1-316, pls. 1-41. [details] Available for editors [request]
original description (of Kliopsyllus Apostolov & Marinov, 1988) Apostolov, A. & T.M. Marinov. (1988). Copepoda Harpacticoida (morski kharpaktikoidi). [Copepoda, Harpacticoida (marine harpacticoids).]. <em>Fauna Bulgarica, Fauna Bolgarii. Izd. B'lg. Akad. Nauk, in Aedibus Academiae Scientiarum Bulgaricae, Sofia. Scient. Bulgaricae, Sofia.</em> 18:1-384. (Bulgarian.). [details] Available for editors [request]
original description (of Krishnapsyllus Kunz, 1974) Kunz, H. (1974). Zwei neue afrikanische Paramesochridae (Copepoda Harpacticoida) mit Darstellung eines Bewegungsmechanismus für die Furkaläste. [Two new African Paramesochridae (Copepoda Harpacticoida) with representation of a movement mechanism for the furcal branches.]. <em>Mikrofauna des Meeresbodens.</em> 36:1-20, figs. 1-31. (20-vii-1974). (Also in: Abh. mat.-nat. Kl. Akad. Wiss. Mainz, 1974: 139-158, figs. 1-31). [details] Available for editors [request]
original description (of Kliopsyllus Kunz, 1962) Kunz, H. (1962). Revision der Paramesochridae (Crust. Copepoda). <em>Kieler Meeresforschungen.</em> 18(2):245-257, figs. 1-34.
page(s): 247 [details] Available for editors [request]
[request]original description (of Kliopsyllus Apostolov & Marinov, 1988) Apostolov, A. & T.M. Marinov. (1988). Copepoda Harpacticoida (morski kharpaktikoidi). [Copepoda, Harpacticoida (marine harpacticoids).]. <em>Fauna Bulgarica, Fauna Bolgarii. Izd. B'lg. Akad. Nauk, in Aedibus Academiae Scientiarum Bulgaricae, Sofia. Scient. Bulgaricae, Sofia.</em> 18:1-384. (Bulgarian.). [details] Available for editors
[request]original description (of Krishnapsyllus Kunz, 1974) Kunz, H. (1974). Zwei neue afrikanische Paramesochridae (Copepoda Harpacticoida) mit Darstellung eines Bewegungsmechanismus für die Furkaläste. [Two new African Paramesochridae (Copepoda Harpacticoida) with representation of a movement mechanism for the furcal branches.]. <em>Mikrofauna des Meeresbodens.</em> 36:1-20, figs. 1-31. (20-vii-1974). (Also in: Abh. mat.-nat. Kl. Akad. Wiss. Mainz, 1974: 139-158, figs. 1-31). [details] Available for editors
[request]original description (of Kliopsyllus Kunz, 1962) Kunz, H. (1962). Revision der Paramesochridae (Crust. Copepoda). <em>Kieler Meeresforschungen.</em> 18(2):245-257, figs. 1-34.
page(s): 247 [details] Available for editors
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identification resource
Mathiske, A., D. Thistle, H. Gheerardyn & G. Veit-Köhler. (2021). Deep sea without limits—four new closely related species of Emertonia Wilson, 1932 (Copepoda: Harpacticoida: Paramesochridae) show characters with a world-wide distribution. <em>In: Huys, R. (ed.). Systematics and Taxonomy of Harpacticoid Copepods—A Commemorative Volume in Honour of Prof. John B.J. Wells, Zootaxa, 569 pp.</em> 5051(1): 443-486., available online at https://doi.org/10.11646/zootaxa.5051.1.18
page(s): 478; note: Key to the species of the andeep-group. [details] Available for editors [request]
page(s): 478; note: Key to the species of the andeep-group. [details] Available for editors
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additional source
Huys, R. (2009). Unresolved cases of type fixation, synonymy and homonymy in harpacticoid copepod nomenclature (Crustacea: Copepoda). <em>Zootaxa.</em> 2183:1-99., available online at http://www.mapress.com/zootaxa/2009/2/zt02183p099.pdf [details] Available for editors [request]
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Present Inaccurate Introduced: alien Containing type locality
